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I think the American government wants to turn their politics into as much of a joke as possible because even more stupid and insane stuff is on the way in about a year.

Insanity is becoming the norm and in a year George Santos will look like a reasonable controversy compared to what's coming.

As of 30 minutes ago, he's officially kicked out.

Someone gets caught with a few grams of weed? Toss ‘em in jail seems to be the common punishment. Defraud companies and regular folks? Slap on the wrist, if that. A fine, the cost of doing business.

It’s sick. Folks like George Santos should be rotting in a jail cell for what they’ve done.

FTA:

"described himself as the “Mary Magdalene of United States Congress”"

Now more like the Mary Queen of Scots of Congress...

I am sympathetic to the 'precedent' argument but I think Santos is unique in his level of fraud and the amount of proof that is available. We know he did at least some fraud for sure, and it's with his campaign funds.

That's just a little different than a congressman getting caught being a domestic abuser or something where it's definitely worth kicking them out but it's not related to their job and the Ethics Committee isn't going to find proof the same way.

Assuming the Santos seat flips Democrat, the house goes from 222-213 to 221-214.

So a 9 vote margin to a 7 vote margin.

It is mighty thin indeed...

For comparison, in the previous Congress the Democratic majority mostly ranged from 218 to 222 (for the last couple of weeks of 2022 it was as low as 216-213 due to resignations etc). See

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/117th_United_States_Congress

I thought it was expelled. Didn't know expulsed was a word. Cuz otherwise it implies that expelled has a noun form counterpart too, and expellation doesn't seem right.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

New York Republican Rep. George Santos’ short and dazzling political career may come to an end on Friday as a supermajority of his colleagues prepares to execute a maneuver as rare as the man they’re poised to evict from the House.

No less than two-thirds of the chamber is expected to vote for a resolution from Ethics Committee Chair Michael Guest, a fellow Republican from Mississippi, that would make Santos only the third person to be booted from Congress since the Civil War – a dishonorable distinction previously reserved for convicted felons.

The 56-page ethics report that ultimately appears to have doomed Santos, who recently described himself as the “Mary Magdalene of United States Congress” and dared members to kick him out, does a thorough – and, befitting its subject – colorful job ticking off his “constant series of lies,” misrepresentations and, most seriously, fraudulent spending.

“Santos’ congressional campaigns were built around his backstory as a successful man of means,” they wrote, “a grandson of Holocaust survivors and graduate from Baruch College with a Master’s in Business Administration from New York University, who went on to work at Citi Group and Goldman Sachs, owned multiple properties, and was the beneficiary of a family trust worth millions of dollars left by his mother, who passed years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a result of long-term health effects related to being at one of the towers.”

What is clear now is that the tens of thousands of donor dollars Santos allegedly spent on Botox, Hermès and OnlyFans is a drop in the bucket compared to what he may cost Republicans, who are already on the backfoot in attempting to keep their House majority ahead of next year’s elections.

The county and state GOP, along with fellow Republican House members from New York, have all condemned Santos – and all are expected to vote for his expulsion – but Democrats have spent the year since the scandal cracked the headlines doing their best to link them all back to the freshman congressman.

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I believe when I see it. I doubt all Republicans will vote to remove him I doubt he will be removed.